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Two men of African descent, John Brown Russwurm and Samuel Cornish were chosen to edit Freedom’s Journal in March 1827, launching the Black press in the United States, a vital institution for communication and social justice. Two hundred years later, newspapers, periodicals, zines, and digital media produced by Black Americans remain a necessary project for […]
Freedom, a radical Harlem-based publication founded in 1951 by Paul Robeson and Louis E. Burnham. During the height of the Cold War, the Red Scare, and McCarthyism—when Black left publications were aggressively surveilled and forcibly marginalized—Freedom emerged as a crucial political and cultural platform for thinkers, artists, and organizers committed to internationalist struggle and anti-capitalist […]
Founders of the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC) were alive to the significance of writing, composing freedom songs and reading-in short of disseminating ideas. This view is affirmed by amongst others the South African writer and scholar Njabulo Ndebele who wrote in the 1980s that, ‘no people that has not set in motion its […]